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. BOX FOR NUTIUNS.

(Application led Oct. 19, 1898.)

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UNrTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT O. HYATT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOX FOR NOTIONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters-Patent No. 626,067, dated May 30, 1899.

Application tiled October 19, 1898.

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Be it known that I, HERBERT O. HYATT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of NewYork, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a cer tain new and useful Box for Notions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to boxes for notions, such as buttons, safety-pins, and other articles ordinarily grouped upon or secured to cards.

The object of the invention is to make a box for this purpose of such form that it will securely nclose and protect the commodity contained therein and at the same time permit of a ready display of the said commodity upon opening the box.

With this object in View the invention consists in the construction and formation of a box for the purpose described, substantially as hereinafter set forth and claimed. In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box with the cover applied. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectionv through the box and cover as seen in Fig. 1. Fig. 2n is a transverse vertical section of a modified form of box. Fig. 3 shows the box opened in position to display its contents, the cover having been removed and set aside.

A indicates one portion of the box, and B the other, while C represents the cover, which is made to receive both portions of the box. The parts A and B are hinged together along their adjacent upper edge, as indicated at D in Figs. 2 and 3.

To confine the cards of merchandise Within the portions of the box, it is preferable to make said portions with narrow overhanging ledges at their ends, as indicated at E, under which the ends of the cards may be sprung, and which prevent the cards from becoming displaced when the box is folded or displayed.

After the box is filled with the commodity that it is to contain the two portions A and B are folded together with their open sides adjacent. This may be conveniently done by simply allowing said parts to assume that position when placed in the left hand, when they may be readily inserted within the cover presented to them in the right hand. The parts will then be in the position indicated in Fig. 2.

A box of this sort is especially convenient for merchants in displaying safety-pins or Serial No. 693|958. (No model.)

buttons or the like, since the opposite sides or portions of the box may be made to contain different sizes or varieties of the commodity displayed, and what is thus in effect two boxes may be readily and conveniently inclosed within one cover and put on the shelves or wrapped up for a customer with neatness and despatch. The size, shape,'and proportions of such a box, as will be seen, can be greatly varied, and it may be adapted to various other uses than those above speciiied.

Although it is preferred to hinge the portions of the box together in the manner illustratedin Figs. 2 and 3, they may be hinged together by their lower adjacent edges, as represented at D in Fig. 2, in which case, when folded, the portions A and B would have their bottoms adjacent to one another and their open sides outward. This arrangement is entirely feasible and practical inasmuch as the retaining-strips E across the ends of the box will prevent the cards of merchandise from falling out of the box when being inserted in the cover or when being taken therefrom.

I lay no claim, broadly, to the hinging together of two or more boxes nor to the stowing of several boxes in a larger receptacle, since these things are of common knowledge and well known to me.

What I claim is- 1. The combination of the two portions A and B, of the box hinged together along their adjacent upper edges so as to-be folded face to face, and the cover C, adapted to receive said portions when folded and presented thereto on edge whereby they may be held together and concealed.

2. The combination of the two portions A,

B, of the box hinged together by adjacent side edges so that they may be folded together, and each provided with retaining-ledges E, across both their ends and the cover C, adapted to receive said portions when folded and presented thereto on edge whereby they may be held together and concealed.

Signed at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, this 28th day of September, A. D. 1898.

HERBERT VO. HYATT.

fitnessesz FRANK L. SNIEEEN, DELBERT H. DECKER.

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